Bancroft, Hubert Howe. The History of Oregon, Vol. I 1834-1848. From "The Works
of Hubert Howe Bancroft," Vol. XXIX.  The History Company, San Francisco, CA,
1886. pg. 469.

ISAAC N. GILBERT

	Isaac N. Gilbert, a native of New York, was born at Rushville, June 27,
1818.  He went to Illinois when still a very young man, and from there emigrated
to Oregon at the age of 27, in company with 3 others.  He took a land claim 2
miles north-east of Salem, and in 1850 married Miss Marietta Stanton, daughter
of Alfred Stanton, an immigrant of 1847.  Gilbert was the first county clerk of
Marion county, holding the office for 3 years, and was fora  time surveyor of
the county.  He made the first plat of the town of Salem.  He laid out the road
from Salem to Philip Foster's, at the foot of the Cascade Mountains, in 1846.
He was one of the four original founders of the Congregational church in Salem
in 1852; and during his life one of its principal supporters.  He died March 20,
1879, at his home in Salem.  (Quoted by Bancroft from "Or. Pioneer Assoc.
Trans., 1878, 82-3).

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